25 October is an important day for China. It was on this day
that China was voted in by the United Nations General Assembly and Taiwan was
thrown out.
It was on this day in 1971 that China, as we know the
country today, started on the path to become a global power in a true senses -
with its place as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations
Security Council (UNSC) - and a roadmap laid before it where it would have
access to geopolitics and global markets.
October 25, 1971 is also important for India. It was on this
day that India was officially pushed to the league of nations that didn't
matter, nation who had no say in the global matters, the pariah nations who
were at best tools to populate international organisations like the UN. The
process of India's official downfall had started much before but India's
hara-kiri was cemented on this day.
There are no second thoughts about it that despites being
India's largest trading partner, China is India's main adversary, has fought a
full-scale war with India and is engaged in a bitter border tussle. China, in
fact, has illegally occupied a large swath of the Indian territory in Jammu
& Kashmir and claims Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state, as its own.
And it leaves no opportunity to express its displeasure, be
it the visits of dignitaries, like it did with US Ambassador Richard Verma's
Arunachal visit yesterday or its practice of not issuing or issuing stapled
visas to people having Arunachal Pradesh association.
China, in fact, uses every opportunity to humiliate India. It
leverages the highly skewed trade balance in its favour to challenge India to
take tough stand on Chinese overtures like opposing India's move to ban JeM
terrorist Masood Azhar in the United Nations or blocking India's entry to the
Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) or provoking or equipping Pakistan against India.
And China has been doing it for long, ever since it betrayed
India's and Jawaharlal Nehru's trust with the 1962 war. Yes, it was because of the
Nehruvian policies that India was forced to trust a deceptive country like
China and it was because of Nehruvian policies that China could get what should
have been rightly India's - be it the UNSC membership or nuclear capability.
And it owes its genesis to the Nehruvian foreign policies, especially in regard to China, that pushed India decades back and China decades ahead.
Much before China, India was offered the UNSC seat. For the world powers of that movement, after India and China began their sovereign journeys, India as a democratic nation and China as a communist dictatorship, China was like a pariah. India, in fact, was offered the permanent UNSC membership, in 1950, in 1955 and other times but Pundit Nehru blundered here in counting China's goodwill in making his mind. Whenever it came to a decision in this regard, Nehru always thought what China would do (and not what such a big change could do to India's future).
©SantoshChaubey